Cut-up the past and the future will leak out
the art of literally cutting up text and images in random fashion
and then reassembling them to form new, unexpected patterns.
By doing so, one could destabilize language, perception, and reality
and get closer to the truth.
Burroughs discovered the cutup in 1959 in Paris through his friend Brion Gysin, a painter. When Gysin began experimenting with cutups in his own work, Burroughs immediately saw the similarity to the juxtaposition technique he had used in Naked Lunch and began extensive experiments with text, often with the collaboration of other writers.
